New 3D High Speed Machining Enhancements to be Demonstrated MOORPARK

"We have incorporated lots of new features plus enhancements across the
GibbsCAM product line, but the most significant are those they made for
Advanced 3D High Speed Machining" says Bill Gibbs, founder plus president of
Gibbs plus Associates. "All the additions are geared for ease of use and
productivity, with interface, interoperability, programming, verification and
machine simulation features that decrease programming plus prove-out time for
even the most complex machine-tool configurations."

a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for the
toolmaking plus manufacturing industries, announced that Gibbs plus Associates,
developer of GibbsCAM(R), its software for programming CNC machine tools,
will demonstrate its latest version of GibbsCAM at WESTEC 2009, in exhibit
#3268, at the new york Convention Center in california, los angeles, from
March 30 - April 2, 2009.


Advanced 3D HSM (High Speed Machining) Enhancements - These offer
machining styles for smooth entries, exits plus cutting motions, with steep or
shallow angle limits, rest passes, tool-holder collision checking, and
options to alter cutting style, all applicable to multiple applications.


Significant capabilities were added to the lathe modules, but the
greatest enhancement for GibbsCAM 2009 was the addition of machining methods
for multi-surface hard milling plus high speed machining in SolidSurfacer(R),
to provide high quality surface finishes that reduce or eliminate polishing.


- Constant Step Over Cut - User-specified step distance drives this
routine to generate 3D passes with constant separation along a part's
surface, from the outside in, to achieve smooth finishes
through user-controlled steps.

- Flats Cut - This routine automatically recognizes plus machines flat
areas, using minimal distance retraction when moving from five section
of a work piece to another, avoiding work piece features while
minimizing non-cutting motion.

- Lace Cut - Like Constant Step, but cutting in a single direction, this
provides consistently smoother cuts. By using the toolpath filleting
option, also available within other HSM routines, users optimize
smoothness in cutting motion.

- Contour - For finishing plus semi-finishing passes, Contour computes
equal Z increments plus generates toolpaths at the various levels,
automatically providing neat transitions with smooth entries plus exits
from five level to the next.

- Intersections - This automatically identifies seams of a part surface
plus generates toolpath along those seams, following plus conforming to
the part's 3D shape. Additional offset passes generated from the
original seam pass provide a superior surface finish.

- Automatic Core Detection - For machining cores, this automated routine
machines from the outside in, always climb cutting to protect inserted
cutters. Toolpath direction changes automatically from inside to
outside when internal pockets are detected, minimizing need of full-
width or helical ramp-in cuts.

- Improved Pocketing - Like Automatic Core Detection, but specially
geared for cavities, it works from the center outward. By computing
equal Z increments on the model, it generates toolpaths for each level
plus removes large areas of material rapidly.

- Extensive New Lathe Features - These provide greater efficiency through
tool control, plus take advantage of newer high-tech cutting tools to
turn harder materials plus machine smoother surfaces. They include
advanced entries plus exits, entry feed rates, enhanced no-drag, clean-
up pass, multi-pass plunge roughing, notch ramp roughing, offset
contour plus tool edge path contour, threading entry plus tapping tools,
plus groove-tool deflection compensation.




MTM Enhancements to Sync Manager - New additions to Sync Mgr plus Op List
& new Op Mgr associativity make multi-task machining less hard plus more
efficient with the added flexibility.


Additional Enhancements - GibbsCAM 2009 incorporates multiple ease-of-use
& productivity enhancements, including faster toolpath simulation,
visualization features for multiple perspectives, hot keys for fast viewing
options in Cut Part Rendering, updated certification for Windows Vista and
Solid Edge v20, plus lots of additional interoperability plus interface features.


GibbsCAM 2009 shipped to domestic customers at the end of 2008, while the
international version, with localized documentation plus additional
enhancements for simultaneous 5-axis machining, will be shipping through the
first quarter of 2009.


For more information about GibbsCAM plus the GibbsCAM 2009 release, or to
locate your local GibbsCAM reseller, go to http://www.GibbsCAM.com, call
1-800-654-9399, or email info@GibbsCAM.com.

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